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December 31, 2014

And as promised, here's the video, explaining about the free download what you get, and what you can do with the clips! Keep in mind, there are 11 image sequences, each 144 frames long, so the whole file is just over 1 GB in filesize.

I didn't mention how the nodes are composited together in blender, but hopefully the example .blend files shows that. However, if it's still not clear, feel free to ask me in a comment for more clarification!

December 20, 2014

I've just spent the last few days working on tweaking this visual effects shot I created. Initially inspired by an fxguidetv episode that covered the making of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey", I eventually wanted to create my own rendition that depicts the surface of the sun.

Most of the elements were created in blender. I used Cycles to render the spaceship interior, and then rendered out a noise texture mapped to a plane for the sunspots and warping texture. I also rendered out black and white versions of the solar flares as smoke simulations.

In Nuke, I took all the elements, tweaked their colors, added film grain, lens effects and some subtle camera shake and voila! Here's the result:

December 11, 2014

Alright. Here's the last version, ready for sale! I modified the pattern on the surface of the metal to make it more appealing to customers. Also tweaked the geometry and applied the modifiers. Finally, I ran it through the compositor for some small glare additions. The modelling is really simple. Most of the time was spent tweaking the shaders and creating the normal maps in photoshop.